Out of curiosity I had another look at the maximum-volume entry in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.cinnamon.desktop.sound.gschema.xml
and found that it indeed looks like to what I modified the failing config last night
<key name="maximum-volume" type="i">
<default>100</default>
<summary>The maximum sound volume</summary>
<description>The maximum sound volume the user can set via the sound applet, settings and volume keys.</description>
</key>
just home from work. updated. rebooted. still semi-fubar’d. Got power management back, not Volume, and still get The Message. Give it another day of updates and if that don’t work then I will revert the cinnamon stuff per instructions in a link way up there.
EDIT
JIC you want to fix that particular one w/o reverting to v 6.2.x have a look at my original posting.
Meanwhile I just downgraded this unlucky updates and wait until a proper fix shows up.
You also could ‘pin’ this versions by excluding these packages from pacman updating them, like @leziguesuggested.
I just wound up pinning the open Sound Control icon into DockbarX…huge and funny-looking but I kinda like it…accomplishes volume control that’s what matters.
Still having problems. The order of the monitors got rearranged when problems started. Can open the System Settings Display item and it will allow me to move monitors as desired. But as soon as I click on ‘Apply’ the whole computer freezes without applying the changes. The keyboard item in System Settings is missing the Layouts and the computer no longer uses the keyboard layout I had been using. Very discouraging to see claims that problems are fixed because that probably means the fixes I need won’t get implemented any time soon. Although I’ve used the Cinnamon DE for many years, through a variety of distros, I’m now seriously looking at different DEs.
on the contrary, the power management and volume issues (the big ones) were fixed by the Arch Crew in 48 hours or a little more. Problems aren’t “fixed” when you roll back, they are only reverted to a past state.
I have not searched cinnamon tickets for your monitor setting problem…search and see. But if someone here is reading you and concurs you can bet they know about it.
I’m just saying don’t be discouraged.
The way I see it is, there are 3 full (and viable) DEs available on Linux. Cinnamon is the only one that is lagging in terms of development because they have a smaller team. They’ve finally now decided to catch up and as such, you should expect Cinnamon to have as many bugs as Gnome or KDE have been having for the last 1+ years.
I’m sure you should know this by now, but these issues don’t affect static releases.
This is the caveat of rolling releases: you will be the first to get all the bugs.
PS: Budgie, Pantheon, Xfce, etc. are all missing stuff. They are all about 70-90% of full DEs. And Cosmic is in development, but is expected to join the Full DE list when it’s ready.
Well, since the only thing Cinnamon would do in the NON-Wayland configuration was show a mouse pointer (and move even! ), I’ve installed and am now using Gnome. Perhaps after some more updates to Cinnamon I’ll take another look. But Cinnamon is currently too buggy and unuseable.
), I’ve installed and am now using Gnome. Perhaps after some more updates to Cinnamon I’ll take another look. But Cinnamon is currently too buggy and unuseable.